The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-09-17
EXTRACTS
From Last Nights Sermon at
the First Methodist Church..

There are lots Of obituaries that are
solid lies. Perhaps in life the dead
man did his own lying, but after death
the secondhand liar does it for him.
There are plenty of dead people in the
cemeteries who would be scared back
to death were they to rise and read
the inscriptions on their tombstones,
for very fear they had gotten into
some one else's grave.
Some church men,
bers can go to negro minstrel show
or little 6xS theatre, where there
isn't as much intellectually as n grain
of mustard seed would hold, and sit
for hours delighted and entranced,
and when they come to church they
loll around and lay their heads down
and groan, tired and worn out. Such
religion is not the right stuff. .
He's like the man from
Arkansas who went back because he
could not stand the society in Texas
and then he bawls at his wife: You
Marier, drive that hound outen the
skillet" | say to Mulky "Abc arc You
my fricnd?h Yes responds Abe,
but | haven't any faith in YOU Well,
goodbye old boy, l don't want to
have anything to do with you If you
have no faith in me. If there is no
hell there is no heaven, and if there is
no personal devil there is no personal
God. If there is cessation of punish
ment in the world to come there is
cessation of happiness.
How do you know you have re-
ligion? Did you ever see it, or taste
it, or smell it, or hear it? NO" was
the reply. "but | feel it," That's
nothing. Four of your faculties out
OF five say you haven't it, so its n mis-
take. "Did you ever have the tooth
ache?" was the question put in re-
joindcr. "How you know you did,
Did you ever see; or taste, or hear or
smell the toothachc?" "No, but L
have felt it," That's nothing. -Four
OF your faculties out of five say you
never had the toothache, and the pre-
ponderance of evidence is against
you. And so it is with religion and
with faith. When you have it you
know it because you feel it. But some
people say, :" have hope, or | hope
/ have n hope"
Some church members tell white
lies. There are no white lies. They
are all black and come from the devil,
The father of lies. Dallas and Fort
Worth and ST. Louis and other places
they say, are pretty hard towns, and
right here want good meeting. |
ask church member do you think
we will have a good meeting? We'll.
don't know; it's mighty hot DO
you think well have good meeting?
The people are pretty hard to get to
turn out, and 50 on through the ga
nut and say Abe if we are going 10
find much of that sort Of spirit and
feeling in this.town we had just as
well pull up stakes and move on.
/ was preaching in
Corsicana once and a certain lady
there was praying at the mourners'
bench and the Holy Ghost told me
that she had been converted, and the
next day she testified to it. The Holy
Spirit, when it is in us, corrects sin. l
was preaching near Tyler once when
member of the Baptist Church spoke
to me and told me he endorsed what l
had to say about the power of the
Holy Spirit, and asked If it was true
he was member of the Baptist
Church. lie said yes. told him |
smeled liquor on his breath and could
not understand how n church
member could drink, as he was sitting
an example that stood in the way OF
sinners coming to salvation. They
actually appointed a committee to
watch me, to see if L wasn't insane,
and for three days they watched, and
they reported that all they was that /
prayed constantly.